Lizzy Itkin: Locomotive Cathedral is an arresting and evocative title. It holds a tension between machinery and reverence, […]
Kristina Marie Darling
In your new collection, which so compellingly engages with the world’s hardships and wonders, there’s a sense — […]
There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches ...
Melora Wolff’s Bequeath radiates intelligence. In this eloquent collection of linked essays, Wolff takes the reader on a […]
Kristina Marie Darling on Melora Wolff’s Bequeath
Kevin Gallagher is a poet, publisher, and political economist living in Greater Boston. His most recent book is And […]
“Archaeologies of mourning”: A Conversation with Kevin Gallagher, curated ...
Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a collection of genre-bending essays forthcoming in 2025 from […]
“Suddenness Set Free: A Conversation with Lauren Westerfield on DEPTH ...
“E pur si muove” or “and yet it moves”: rumored to have been uttered by Galileo Galilei as […]
Cheryl Ann Passanisi on Kevin Gallagher’s And Yet It Moves
Reading Lise Goett’s The Radiant is a thrilling confirmation that “poetry is not like. It is the very […]
Heather H. Thomas on The Radiant by Lise Goett
Informed by Alison Stone features a different form of poetry in each section: Pantoum, Ghazal, Villanelle, Sonnet, Sonnet […]
Cheryl Ann Passanisi on Alison Stone’s Informed
“Through singing, opera must make you weep, shudder, die.” […]
Leslie Friedman on Weep, Shudder Die by Dana Gioia
Just below our feet, billions of whisper-thin hyphae combine to form mycelium, the filaments of which fungi are […]
K.B. Kinkel on Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic
Like the halves of the god-severed wholes in Aristophanes’ Symposium fable, image and word wander the world in […]
H.L. Hix on Geoffrey Gazza’s Self Geofferential
Take in these shrapnel fragments of aria slowly, word by word—or, as the collection’s epigraph, “To make sounds […]